Udal Law

Udal Law (ON odal, land held in allodial tenure), is the ancient Norse system of inheritance and law which the Viking settlers brought wherever they settled. No trace remains of the previous legal system, which no doubt derived from the distant past with influences from earlier incomers, such as the Picts, but in Orkney it seems that that the Norse took total control of an existing pattern of settlement and then modified it.

Kirkwall from Cromwell’s Fort

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